i rarely wear skirts, and have a love from afar relationship with pencil skirts as well. however, i am planning on making a few!! i have a vintage 50s pattern that fits me almost perfectly, and 1 skirt almost done!

I LOVE pencil skirts, I've loved them for a while, I've been searching for the perfect denim pencil skirt for over a year now, I really like the cut of the new Shade and Down East Basics denim skirts. I feel like a pencil shows your shape off and it just feels sophisticated and put together.

I love this look (and with FINALLY losing the baby weight after baby #5, I can wear it)...I even have one handed down from a friend. Can you give some ideas on what shirts look good with it? Especially for a pear-shaped girl like me?

Elaine - I think you could totally get away with something like 2. Even if it has a high slit, it's long enough you could close some of it, and still have enough slit before you show the back of your leg to the world.

And yeah. I did know that my blog was on Uptown Cheapskate's website. Kind of random, but I was happy to see it there!

Christa-I am totally on the hunt for the perfect denim pencil skirt! When I find it I will own it!

The best place to go for pencil skirts is JC Penney's. Their Worthington line makes great penicl skirts that last forever. I have a grey one that I've worn at least once a week for the past year and it's still in perfect shape. Plus, they're almost always on sale for less than $20.